Three break pilots in Paris
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The big party |
| Original title | La Grande vadrouille |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French , English , German |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 132 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gérard Oury |
| script | Gérard Oury Danièle Thompson Marcel Jullian |
| production | Robert Dorfmann |
| music | Georges Auric |
| camera |
André Domage Alain Douarinou Claude Renoir |
| cut | Albert Jurgenson |
| occupation | |
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La Grande Vadrouille (Original title: La Grande vadrouille ) in Germany under the title The Last Temptation known, a French film comedy in which Gérard Oury directed and in 1966 was released. With 17 million viewers, the film is one of the greatest successes in French cinema and was only ousted from the top spot in the audience's favor in 2008 by Welcome to the Sch'tis .
action
In 1942, during the occupation of France by Nazi Germany in World War II , a British bomber was shot down over Paris on its return flight to England . The three British who jumped with parachutes land in different places. One of them, Peter Cunningham, happens to meet the painter Bouvet, and together they escape over the roofs to the apartment of the young puppeteer Juliette. Meanwhile, Peter's compatriot MacIntosh meets the vain conductor Lefort after landing on the roof of the Paris Opera . The two British intend to move with their commander Brook over the demarcation line into the so-called " free zone " (i.e. the part of France not occupied by the Wehrmacht), from where they want to return to Great Britain .
At first, Lefort and Bouvet show little inclination to help the Allied soldiers. But when the Germans also pursue them because of their involuntary complicity, the two have to go into hiding and confide in the British for better or for worse. The five men and Juliette set out on the further escape, which turns out to be difficult and dangerous because it leads to occasional and chance encounters with the German occupying forces, led by Wehrmacht Major Achbach. Despite Juliette's help, Peter Cunningham is arrested on a train, but with the help of the local nuns, the other fugitives find shelter in a monastery and a hotel. Disguised as German soldiers, they can later free Peter, and after a spectacular chase they all manage to escape in two gliders into the "free zone".
Emergence
The shooting lasted 17 weeks and took place in the Paris Studios Cinémas . The outdoor shots were taken in the valleys of Burgundy, in Lozère , on the limestone plateaus of Aveyron , on the Chaos de Montpellier-le-Vieux , in the Alleuze region , in Mende , in the Burgundy landscape (first in Vézelay and the surrounding area, in Noyers-sur-Serein, in Meursault and in the Hôtel-Dieu in Beaune ) and in Paris. In his role, de Funès conducted the Hungarian March from La damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz . For this scene he had practiced for three months at home in front of the mirror and had taken lessons from the conductor of the national orchestra. When the scene was shot for the first time, the members of the orchestra of the Palais Garnier stood up and paid their tribute to the "conductor" de Funès by tapping the bows .
Currently, near the Aérodrome in Mende , one can admire the two wrecks - the scene was filmed twice - of the car that enabled the hero of the title to escape in the scene with the gliders.
In the original version, the British and German actors usually speak and sing in their mother tongue. De Funès speaks a few words in German and Bourvil in English. All foreign language scenes were subtitled for the French audience.
background
After Louis, the rascal ( Le Corniaud , also Spicy Things for Monsieur ), Gérard Oury had his second comedy success with this film. De Funès was the ideal cast for the role of the selfish conductor as a counterpart to the soulful and naive role of Bourville. De Funès and Bourvil had already played the rascal together in 1956 in the film Two Men, a Pig and the Night of Paris ( La traversée de Paris ) and in 1964 in Louis . They were supposed to meet again for The Stupid Pranks of the Rich ( La Folie des Grandeurs ), but Bourvil died before filming began.
Since its appearance in 1966, the film has surpassed all attendance records in France and for a long time remained the country's most successful film with 17 million tickets sold. It was only more than 30 years later that this record was broken by Titanic ; In 2008, Willkommen bei den Sch'tis, the most successful French film with more than 20 million viewers, followed.
The big party was also a box-office hit in other countries.
German versions
There are three German dubbed versions of the film. It was first shown in the Federal Republic of Germany on September 15, 1967 as Drei Bruchpiloten in Paris , in a version shortened by 22 minutes by the distributor Constantin Film . This German synchronization of the premiere was produced by the Berliner Union-Film; Gerd Martienzen for de Funès and Arnold Marquis for Bourvil could be heard .
On December 19, 1974, the film was re-released by Tobis Film in a new synchronization under the title Die große Sause . This time the synchronization came from Rainer Brandt's studio and was shortened by only seven minutes and in other places than the Constantin / Union synchronization. The dialogue books have been rewritten. In this second version Gerd Martienzen spoke again for de Funès and Arnold Marquis for Bourvil; Hans Walter Clasen now spoke for Benno Sterzenbach , who could still be heard in his own voice in the first version. The second synchronization attempted to take into account the multilingualism (English in France), which was left out in the first version.
The third synchronization was re-produced directly for DVD in 2008 by Universal Studios and Studio Canal; it was initially only published in Australia and Belgium, but then in August 2010 also in Germany. For the first time, the full running time was synchronized with Michael Pan as the German voice of de Funès. In this version, similar to the second dubbing from 1974, the language barriers were thematically addressed in order to preserve the meaning of the dialogues, which were multilingual in the original. The DVD published by Kinowelt contains all three synchronized versions.
For many years only the Constantin / Union dubbing from 1967 ran on television - but under the title Die große Sause from 1974. The second dubbing was used on the Super 8 excerpt from Marketing Film.
All three versions are now available on Blu-ray.
Reviews
“During the German occupation, a house painter and a conductor did not quite voluntarily become heroes of the Resistance by rescuing three English airmen who had jumped off on an adventurous escape from Paris. Burlesque that belittles the time background, but is full of speed and gag. "
“The three comedians Bourvil, Louis de Funès and Terry-Thomas are once again proving their ability to provide entertaining and skilful slapstick. Recommended as a harmless pleasure from the age of 12. "
Web links
- La Grande Vadrouille in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- La Grande Vadrouille at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions Atlas Video unchecked - French DVD from Die Große Sause at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Three Bruchpiloten in Paris in the German synchronous file
- ↑ Three Bruchpiloten in Paris in the German synchronous file
- ↑ Three Bruchpiloten in Paris in the German synchronous file
- ↑ The big party - Blu-ray review on blurayreviews.ch.
- ^ Three break pilots in Paris. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Critique No. 405/1967, page 510, editor: Evangelischer Presseverband München